Archives security

How does a politically sensitive harddrive go missing? Here's the answer:

http://www.archives.gov/news/clinton-hard-drive-faq-2009-5-20.pdf

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

New Mexico again

Sunday morning in Albuquerque just before meeting Ray Suarez in the fall of 2008.

More New Mexico

New Mexico

Outside the library in Los Alamos, New Mexico, after a swim in the Olympic pool there.

The Meaning of Life

George Anastaplo, Human Being and Citizen...who shares the realization that one of the purposes of life is to examine the purposes of life.

--from The Meaning of Life: according to our century's greatest writers and thinkers
collected by Hugh S. Moorhead. 1988. Chicago Review Press

Playwright Alan Ayckbourn after a stroke

A very nice doctor came in and said, 'Are you aware that when you say yes, you're saying no?'

I said, 'No.'

And he said, 'I don't think this conversation can continue.'

--Quoted in The New York Times, April 22, 2009